Title Under the hook : Melbourne waterside workers remember working lives and class war, 1900-1998 / Wendy Lowenstein & Tom Hills

Edition [New edition] enlarged and updated Published Prahran, Victoria : Bookworkers Press in association with Working Titles, 1998

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
WATERFT BUSINESS	331.761387164 Low/Uth 1998		AVAILABLE

Description 232 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm regular print Summary This is a book about the waterfront and the men who have worked on it. Most of the story is told in the words of wharfies. Is it 'true'? The question is academic. The truth of a shipowner is not the truth of a waterside worker Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: page 229 Subject Labor unions -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- History. Stevedores -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- History. Working class -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- History. Author Hills, Tom, 1904- LC no. 00001434 ISBN 095862240X (paperback) 9780958622400 (paperback)

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